Delete .vmdk file from esx host
I delete .vmdk file from esx host,any way to recover this file? Terrible day!
View ArticleESX4.1. Installation – No standard keyboard supported on hardware platform,...
Hi, I am trying to install ESX 4.1 on one of our bord, but we are getting below error, During the ESX 4.1 installation, we observed that it reports error “i8042.c: No controller found. “ For this...
View ArticleNetwork uplink redundancy fake alert
Hi there, Do you all encounter false alert for network uplink redundancy alarms and network connectivity lost? Everytime the alarm triggered, customer will call and request me to check onsite, but the...
View Articlevmotion with RDM-p disks?
I'm reading in an online course that vmotion is not supported when using rdm-p disks . Is this true? Why is this? The reason i ask is that in my testing vmotion seems to work fine in this scenario. So,...
View ArticleIncreasing netapp lun size
we have esxi4. 1 hosts connected to netapp filer via FC. On the netapp we have luns on volumes, and these luns on esx are mapped as vmfs datastores on ESX. One of the luns is running out of space,...
View ArticleESXi 5.0 supports only LAHF and SAHF CPU instructions
Dear team, ESXi 5.0 supports only LAHF and SAHF CPU instructions. Need to understand LAHF and SAHF, and how it's work? RegardsMr VMware
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Host doesn't have a journal...
Dear Team, Suddenly our Datastore losses connectivity with our ESX servers and the running VMs are poweredoff because .vmdk is not accessible to these ESX host. once the Datastore connectivity restored...
View ArticleVm's crash
Stange issue, few VM's have the below logs and were crashed. Sep 22 07:00:26.552: vmx| GuestRpc: app toolbox's second ping timeout; assuming app is downSep 22 07:05:22.730: vmx| GuestRpcSendTimedOut:...
View Articlevmware vcenter 5.1 converter plugin
hii upgraded vcenter from 4.1 fo 5.1a , hosts still running esx4.1 i dont see the vmware converter plugin anymore cant p2v within vsphere client ? is it still there or do i have to use the standalone...
View ArticleHow to mount Usb Hdd on Redhat 5.4 vm running on ESX 4.0 Host.
Hi All, I want to mount USB HDD to Esx 4.0 host.My infra is.1)IBM blade HS22.2)vmware esx 4.03)one of the blade having redhat 5.4 os. I want to mount my usb drive to redhat virtual machine.Please...
View ArticleVI Client Suddenly locks
Hi there, Randomly when I connect to my environment using the VI client through our managment server, I will be working on a virtual machine and then the VI client freezes. We are running VMware ESX...
View ArticleSteps to upgrade esx3.5 Update 5 to ESX4.1 Update 3
Dear Team, Planning to upgrade my esx3.5 Update 5 207095 to esx 4.1 Update 3, planning to follow below steps, please correct me if i am wrong.Procedure1:1) download...
View ArticleSLES SP1 VM performance issue.
Dear Team, I have three SLES SP1 VM on ESX4.1 800830 esx host, facing performance issue on the same. Once i take a console of this VM and run top command in that load avaerage is 25.3 25.6 25.7...
View ArticleWindows 2008 R2 issues with audio - No Audio output device detected
We are still on 4.0 update 3 and will be moving to 5.1 here in the next couple of months but we are testing a new Citrix xenapp environment on 2008 R2 servers and noticed that there isn't a sound card...
View ArticleVM \ CPU \ SQL License Question - Urgent
Hi, The ESX host has x2 6 Core Processors in a Blade Server. 12 cores in total. We have assigned 4 CPU's to a SQL Server. See pic: Customer is trying to figure out what SQL licence they require per...
View Article"Operation timed out:The VM failed to resume on the destination during early...
During migration to another host I came across 2 Vms that gave an error :" Operation timed out:The VM failed to resume on the destination during early power on". Restarting management agents on the...
View ArticlePublic/Private IP addresses
Hello, I am trying to setup the VCL application. On one configuration page, it asks for public & private IP addresses. On my home network, I always have the management network as the private....
View ArticleStrange IP behaviour
I have a reoccurring problem, wanted some other eyes on it. We have multiple IP's assigned to virtual nic1. It also has a Vswitch VLAN assignment. We have other virtual nic's in the VM. OS is Windows...
View ArticleReset administrator password for machine client
Hello experts, I have a client machine and installed Windows 2008 OS. and I using vsphere client to connected to the server. How to do to reset administrator for this client via vsphere client? Any...
View ArticleLinux Kernel 3.10 in ESX4?
I would like to run a newer linux distribution (Slackware 14.1) in ESX 4. Is this possible if its using Kernel 3.10.17? Will ESX4 run kernel 3.x ok?
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